Keynote Speakers
Adrian Slater
Adrian is a solicitor and Head of Legal Services at the University of Leeds. He used to be in private practice as an associate working in a large corporate firm, however fed up of long working “outrageous” hours he transferred to the University over 12 years ago. His practice is very diverse, dealing with anything from international joint ventures and intellectual property disputes to student related matters. He first became interested in plagiarism issues some years ago when advising on matters arising at the University. He has lectured on plagiarism and many other legal topics at home and abroad. He says his most exciting moment professionally was “being accidentally involved in a shoot out in Vilnius”.
Jude Carroll
Jude Carroll is a Principal Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University where she supports projects linked to academic integrity, work-based learning and initial teacher accreditation. She is also one of two Directors of TALIS, a national centre for Teaching and Learning for International Students and is a visiting academic at the Royal Technical University in Stockholm, Sweden. Jude writes, researches and travels the world in her work with student plagiarism. She works with individual academics, institutions and with national quality assurance bodies to develop and improve policy and practice. This work was recognised in 2009 by the award of a National Teaching Fellowship by the UK Higher Education Academy. In 2007, she published the second edition of her widely cited Handbook for deterring plagiarism in higher education.
Dr. Teddi Fishman
Teddi Fishman is the Director of the Center for Academic Integrity and a Fellow of Rutland Institute for Ethics. She earned her Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University with a dissertation on Quality in Distance Education. Her research is interdisciplinary, including seemingly unrelated topics like the rhetoric of police writing and identity in online environments as well as the promotion of academic integrity. In this work, however, Teddi finds common threads related both to rhetoric and to integrity and authenticity in communication. Currently, Teddi is working to develop a standard definition of plagiarism, something she sees as a necessary step to educate students as to its significance.Teddi’s research and her professional agenda focus on the promotion of personal and systemic integrity in education in order to maintain a more successful, sustainable, and just society.
Isabel Nisbet
Isabel is the acting Chief Executive of the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual).
From 2005 – 2008 Isabel was Director of Regulation and Standards at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. In July 2004 she led the establishment of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) and in 2003 she set up a new regulatory body, the Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals, and was its acting Chief Executive. Before that she held Director posts at the General Medical Council, at a time of comprehensive reform. From 1995 - 1999 she was Deputy Health Service Commissioner (Ombudsman) for England, Scotland and Wales.
Isabel was a senior civil servant, with a career in Government spanning the Scottish Office, the Cabinet Office and the Department of Health. Isabel lives in London, but was brought up in Glasgow and retains links there. She is a keen musician when time permits.
